{"id":31328,"date":"2024-01-09T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?page_id=31328"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:09:17","slug":"unit-7-outreach-ii-1867-1904","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/unit-7-outreach-ii-1867-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 7: OUTREACH II: 1867-1904"},"content":{"rendered":"

MY FAMILY<\/span><\/a>
\nTHE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>OUTREACH II: 1867-1904<\/u><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Once students are familiar with Joseph Hal\u00e9vy, teachers should explain:<\/em><\/p>\n

In the spring of 1867,87<\/sup> Hal\u00e9vy set out on his mission to Ethiopia. Much to his surprise, when he arrived at the Beta Israel villages, the local community members did not believe he was Jewish. In fact, they feared he was a \u201cmissionary with intentions to tempt them towards Christianity.\u201d88<\/sup> But when Hal\u00e9vy mentioned Jerusalem (in passing), the community finally understood, and extended a warm welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>At this point, students should be asked:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Why do you think the Beta Israel found it so hard to believe that Joseph Hal\u00e9vy was Jewish?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Discussion here can focus on perception of \u201cothers\u201d in relation to ourselves. Then, drawing from their research, students should roleplay Hal\u00e9vy\u2019s first meeting with the Beta Israel and show the community\u2019s shift in perception and attitude when he finally mentions Jerusalem. After this, teachers should explain:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>While Hal\u00e9vy\u2019s mission to extend Western Jewish outreach to the Beta Israel was successful, it yielded \u201cfew concrete results.\u201d89<\/sup> In the subsequent years, the Beta Israel suffered greatly from drought.90<\/sup> In fact, up to two-thirds91<\/sup> of the Beta Israel community died in [various] plagues.92<\/sup> No further Jewish missions to Ethiopia were arranged until 1904 (thirty-six years after Hal\u00e9vy\u2019s visit). The 1904 mission, however, dramatically changed the tone of relations between the Beta Israel and the rest of world Jewry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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87\u00a0 Ibid.<\/p>\n

88\u00a0 Ibid, 54.<\/p>\n

89\u00a0 Ibid, 55.<\/p>\n

90 As Rabbi Sharon Shalom explains, between 1888\u20131892, known as the Kfu Ken <\/em>(The Terrible Days), the Beta Israel experienced drought, cattle plagues, and invasion of the Darvish people of Sudan (Shalom, From Sinai to Ethiopia<\/em>, p. 69).<\/p>\n

91\u00a0 See Waldman, The Jews of Ethiopia: The Beta Israel Community<\/em>, 56.<\/p>\n

92\u00a0 Shalom, From Sinai to Ethiopia<\/em>, 69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY FAMILY THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM OUTREACH II: 1867-1904 \u00a0Once students are familiar with Joseph Hal\u00e9vy, teachers should explain: In the spring of 1867,87 Hal\u00e9vy set out on his mission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30932,"parent":0,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31328","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}